What principally distinguishes ījāz al-qaṣr from ījāz al-ḥadhf?
Musāwāt and Ījāz al-Qaṣr: Proportionate Wording and the Rhetoric of Qiṣāṣ
- Qaṣr must be imperative and ḥadhf prohibitive
- Qaṣr only occurs in poetry and ḥadhf only in prose
- Qaṣr uses rich meaning in the expressed wording; ḥadhf recovers an omitted element through context
- Qaṣr always uses more words